Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 07:16:23AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: That second sentence is incorrect. unicorn:~$ dpkg -s bsdmainutils | grep Depends: Depends: bsdutils (>= 3.0-0), debianutils (>= 1.8), bsdextrautils (>= 2.35.2-7), ncal Sorry, you're right. I eye-balled the control file here [1]

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/27/21 3:45 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: /usr/bin/cal moved to its own package (ncal) in bsdmainutils upload 12.1.3. This is the version included in current stable and newer; but it's after the version in oldstable (buster). IOW, On buster, if you had installed bsdmainutils, you would get

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 08:45:03AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On upgrade from Buster, bsdmainutils will no longer provide > /usr/bin/cal. There's no dependency in place to automatically pull in > the ncal package, you have to do that yourself. That second sentence is incorrect. unicorn:~$

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
/usr/bin/cal moved to its own package (ncal) in bsdmainutils upload 12.1.3. This is the version included in current stable and newer; but it's after the version in oldstable (buster). IOW, On buster, if you had installed bsdmainutils, you would get /usr/bin/cal. bsdmainutils is Priority:

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:32:52PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > On 9/26/21 1:18 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > > I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default. > > "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/26/21 1:18 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default. "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me that only bsdmainutils depends on it. "apt-cache showpkg bsdmainutils" gives me

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > On 9/26/21 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:24:59AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a > > > command called "cal" which would

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default. "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me that only bsdmainutils depends on it. "apt-cache showpkg bsdmainutils" gives me a fairly significant list of packages that

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/26/21 2:57 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Jeremy Ardley wrote: As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. [...] Now that I've moved to bullseye, I don't see the command nor a package containing it. It is in the

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/26/21 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:24:59AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars,

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: Em 26/09/2021 09:35, Roger Price escreveu: Perhaps the *cal one gets depends on the desktop. I use Mate Desktop. And i used it with Debian 9 (stretch) before upgrading (sequentially) to 11, a few weeks ago. But Greg Wooledge just, in a message in

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Dedeco Balaco
Em 26/09/2021 09:35, Roger Price escreveu: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > >> $  ls -l /usr/bin/cal >> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 mar 23  2021 /usr/bin/cal -> ncal > Not for all of us. > > rprice@titan ~ inxi -S > System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 26/09/2021 à 14:35, Roger Price a écrit : > On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > >> $  ls -l /usr/bin/cal 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 mar 23  2021 >> /usr/bin/cal -> ncal > > Not for all of us. > > rprice@titan ~ inxi -S > System:    Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: $  ls -l /usr/bin/cal 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 mar 23  2021 /usr/bin/cal -> ncal Not for all of us. rprice@titan ~ inxi -S System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:24:59AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a > command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the > screen. It would do other calendars, depending on command line parameters. >

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Wasn't that in bsd-utils? If not there, maybe plan9. On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Charlie wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:24:59 -0400 Paul Informed me about What > happened to cal? > > > Folks: > > > > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall,

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:24:59 -0400 Paul Informed me about What happened to cal? > Folks: > > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to > be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's > calendar to the

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > As I recall, there used to be a > command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the > screen. [...] > Now that I've moved to bullseye, I don't see the command nor > a package containing it. It is in the package ncal which obviously was newly

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 26/9/21 1:46 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on command line parameters. Now that I've

What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Paul M. Foster
Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on command line parameters. Now that I've moved to bullseye, I don't see the command nor